Report Back from Session 5:
Good Governance and Better Decision-Making for Sustainable Forest Management

Facilitators:
Dr. Bishnu Bhandari, IGES
Dr. Nandang Prihadi, Indonesia
Dr. Doris Capistrano, CIFOR

Presentation 1, Model Forests - Dr. Peter Besseau
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Key elements: landscapes, partnership, sustainability

Progress since 1990s: 30 sites, 90 partners, over 25 million has

Success indicators:
partnerships intact; on-going/ increased support;establishment of new sites; use of sites as demonstration; reduction in conflict

Main successes:
Better planning/ mgt; reduction of conflict; conservation areas and buffer zones; new ideas sharing; benefit to governments; poverty alleviation; enabling environment for progress on other fronts

Discussions focused on:

• Ensuring efficiency
• Boundaries of analysis
• Mechanisms for setting up model forests
• Sites built on previous project interventions

Presentation 2,  Land Use Impacts on Watersheds in Berau and Pallu - Dr. Nigel Sizer
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Drivers of inappropriate land use and resulting impacts

TNC project on participatory watershed management and water supply provision (multi-stakeholder local watershed mgt committees)

Presented results of water valuation in the two watersheds

• Berau: $5.62 million (agriculture/livestock/HH use)
• Pallu: $8.99 milllion (agriculture/livestock/HH use)

Discussions focused on:

• Eco-regional planning
• Relations between TNC and different levels of government

Presentation 3: Decentralization–Dr. Jurgen Blaser
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• Summary of Interlaken workshop, April 2004
• Proposed further steps (global, regional, country level)
• Revisitng AFP Work Plan Sheet
• Discussion and feedback

Objectives of proposed work plan

• Overcoming constraints for effective SFM
• Enlarged understanding of decentralization within the three priority areas of the AFP
• Coordinated policy responses
• Information exchange, capacity building
• Identifying instruments relevant to advancing the agenda at local level

Proposed Process/ Steps

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